On 05/29/2011 05:47 PM, Joe Abbate wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On 05/29/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> In the end, I think that requests for a tracker mostly come from people >> who are not part of this community, or at least not part of its mailing >> lists (which is about the same thing IMO). > > I think that's a bit harsh. I assume you consider GSM a part of the > community and he's asking for a tracker, even going to the trouble of > posting a "Help Wanted!" article about it. > >> If they submitted a bug >> report via the lists, they're generally going to get replies via email, >> and that seems sufficient to me. But if they submitted a report via the >> web form, they might well be expecting that they can track what's going >> on with it on a web page. And that's not unreasonable. But we could >> fix that without any changes at all in our work processes. Just have >> the webform add a "cc: bugbot-bugn...@postgresql.org" to each submitted >> email, and set up a bot to collect the traffic and display it on a >> suitable web page. (Spam filtering left as an exercise for the reader.)
[...] > To collect info/discuss, I could use > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TrackerDiscussion but I see there's a > request to not modify/add anything without talking to Stefan > Kaltenbrunner. Would a new page be preferable? feel free to reuse/edit the page as you like it(I have just removed the notice) - the "don't edit" thingy was added because people started to find the page via google (while searching for a tracker/bugreporting tool) and considered it official status information or a way to sell^pitch their preferred tool to me personally. Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
